G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 1856
HR 1856 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Pictor 144 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,909 K, and it shines at 11.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 144 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 36553 · HIP 25768
5,909 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
11.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
144 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
11.11×
the Sun's light output
2.24
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.